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May 1, 2004

Changing spaces. Popular FCB/Chicago president/CEO Dana Anderson is DDB's new CEO, reporting to chairman Bob Scarpelli. Former agency president Ray Gillette will head a ...

Competition heats up as three local directors rise to PGL’s Top 50 list

Apr 29, 2004

Project Greenlight entrant Scott Smith's stomach was tied up in knots all day April 27, the day 250 PGL contestants would be notified of whether they made the cut to the n...

Blanchard Films’ under-$1 million baseball drama first of three features

By Ed M. Koziarski Apr 26, 2004

Roberto Blanchard is rolling out the first of a three- film slate May 1 when he premieres his family baseball drama "The Magic of Summer" at the Burnham Plaza Theater.Write...

Silver Addy spurs video game scorer GameBeat’s expansion into spot music

By Ed M. Koziarski Apr 19, 2004

Barely a year after its move into commercial music, Matteson-based GameBeat Studios picked up a Silver Addy last March from the Madison Ad Federation (MAF) for a theme for...

B-movie giant Jack Hill sees off-beat films “truly a revolution in cinema”

By Ed M. Koziarski Apr 19, 2004

A giant of the B-movie, Jack Hill, who started his career in the early '60s at Roger Corman's legendary American International Pictures, will be in town May 14 to guest-ho...

CFWC to call Kennedy-King its campus

Apr 19, 2004

It looks like the venerable Chicago Community Film Workshop will have a new home at Kennedy-King community college, reopening in time for summer classes. CFWC executive d...

Second film “Sacred” by “One Week” director is Visions Blu headliner

By Ed M. Koziarski Apr 19, 2004

Rap superstar Nas stars in director Carl Seaton's $300,000 feature, "Sacred," that headlines the 3rd annual Visions Blu Symposium April 24. It sceens with a selection of...

May 1 Diversity Visual Media Fair aims to link minorities to job opportunities

By Ed M. Koziarski Apr 19, 2004

As part of an ongoing effort to assure that minorities get a fair share of the work expected to be stimulated by the Illinois Film Tax Credit, the Illinois Film Office is ...

REELSCREEN: News & Notes

Apr 19, 2004

PIONEER EDITORS HONORED. Three spot editors from back in the day who virtually invented the modern post house will be inducted into the AICE Hall of Fame at the AICE nati...

Indie film production went non-stop in 2003 amid otherwise lagging economy

By Ed M. Koziarski Apr 19, 2004

By Ed M. Koziarski Even as 2003 saw the lowest level of Hollywood expenditures in Chicago in years, one sector of local production seems to have remained firmly recession- ...

Five local filmmakers are among 250 to make Project Greenlight’s first cut

Apr 18, 2004

Chicago made its mark in the 2004 Project Greenlight with five aspiring local filmmakers who beat 1,700 entrants to advance to the next tier, a select group of 250, who ma...

Feature doc of local filmmaker’s quest to be a bullfighter screens April 20

By Ed M. Koziarski Apr 13, 2004

Alex LeMay was well into production on his feature doc "The Bulls of Suburbia" when he got the call from Universal Pictures. "They asked if we had any bullfighting footage th...

REELSCREEN: News & Notes – 04/09/04

Apr 9, 2004

TRADEMARK CONFLICT NOT FUNNY. Second City Television (SCTV) took umbrage over the SCTV acronym of the new Stand-Up Comedy Television cable channel and told the upstart channel t...

Reed’s Bam Studio moves to new space

Apr 9, 2004

Brian Reed's Bam Studio has moved into Spots BME's former audio room, the only audio room in the Midwest designed by Russ Berger, who is considered one of the two top accoustica...

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